TY - JOUR
T1 - A Census Tract Exercise in Local Geography
AU - Hart, John Fraser
PY - 1972
Y1 - 1972
N2 - This exercise has been used successfully by more than a thousand students is an introductory college course, and it probably could be equally successful with high school students. Census tract data are used in a simulated research project. Quality of housing in the dependent variable (whose distribution we wish to “explain”), with owner-occupancy and age of housing as independent (or “explanatory”) variables. The distribution of the three variables is compared visually (by maps) and statistically (by scattergrams). A regression line is placed on the better scattergram, and residual values are mapped to provide a basis for the formulation of better working hypotheses. © 1972 Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
AB - This exercise has been used successfully by more than a thousand students is an introductory college course, and it probably could be equally successful with high school students. Census tract data are used in a simulated research project. Quality of housing in the dependent variable (whose distribution we wish to “explain”), with owner-occupancy and age of housing as independent (or “explanatory”) variables. The distribution of the three variables is compared visually (by maps) and statistically (by scattergrams). A regression line is placed on the better scattergram, and residual values are mapped to provide a basis for the formulation of better working hypotheses. © 1972 Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
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U2 - 10.1080/00221347208981683
DO - 10.1080/00221347208981683
M3 - Article
SN - 0022-1341
VL - 71
SP - 326
EP - 339
JO - Journal of Geography
JF - Journal of Geography
IS - 6
ER -